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It was over 4 years ago that we walked into Los Angeles' Scout and were taken with the thoughtful collection of clothing from an international roster of budding fashion talents complemented by expertly curated vintage pieces. A lot has changed in four years. Scout moved to a new location in Hollywood. Jargol moved to New York. And Greg Armas, one of the original owners of Scout moved to New York himself and opened Assembly in mid-2008.

For his new retail effort, Armas has evolved the Scout retail concept. While still having an eye for up and coming fashion talents, Assembly honors the past as much as the future. This is reflected in the ambiance, in the prominently display selection of vintage clothing, accessories and objects, but also in the curation of new clothing and accessories. Surrounded by vintage and antique items that are desirable and relevant decades later, with Assembly there seems to be a predilection towards design and production that will stand the test of time. Shoes in beautiful, heavyweight leathers and canvases are preferred over trendy colorful sneakers. Shirts and dresses with careful construction and subdued colors prevail over more unorthodox treatments. Seasonal trends are mostly ignored.

Raquel Allegra tie dye top

Damir Doma sunglasses

Rachel Comey jazz shoe

A Detacher long sock

Veronique Branquinho button-up

Vintage 1940s brass piggy bank

Vintage fashion has a new online marketplace. Tired of eBay's ambivalence towards the needs of vintage fashion seller and buyers, Market Publique has created an environment custom-tailored to make selling and shopping for vintage fashion as fun as visiting a cute little vintage boutique.

The rack of vintage clothing at well-curated Anica has always been one of those little secrets that true San Francisco fashion folks know about. Well, the secret's out. The shop is taking its vintage selection online or all to enjoy. A few more favorites below.

Some between the rarefied gowns that once might have once traipsed across a red carpet to the plucky dresses that spent most their time on '70s shag carpeting is where Vagabond NYC has found its niche. Not strictly designer vintage and definitely not flea market finds, the New York based online boutique presents an exquisitely styled collection of vintage dresses and separates from designers famous and forgotten. While a few pieces hover into the price brackets of designer vintage retailers, most are only a modest splurge for a very wearable piece of fashion history.

Geoffrey Beene

Helmut Lang

Rifat Ozbek

Veronique Branquinho

"Zsa Zsu is a feel good online vintage store for people with a vintage heart and a sense of humor." The Belgium online vintage store is the latest additon to our guide.

Scour all the vintage racks you want, many of the pieces featured at Archive will be just impossible to track down elsewhere. The Texas-based, online designer vintage boutique is the brainchild of a former New York designer vintage boutique owner and the pedigree is obvious. On display is a rotating display of some of the most significant fashion design to happen from the '60s on.

Issey Miyake

Moschino

Moschino

Charles Jourdan

Among a sea of vintage stores that hawk rayon and polyester shirts like there's no tomorrow, What Comes Around Goes Around is a store like none other. The shop is a purveyor of fine Americana. In one inspiring space is a selection of western shirts and boots, jeans and cords, T-shirts and coats, designer dresses and accessories, that collectively tell the story of 20th century America.

Sure you might be able to find this stuff for a tenth of the price if you do enough digging in rural, small-town vintage stores, but that makes What Comes Around Goes Around no less the resource that it is.

The shop plays a few different angles, but our favorite are the cowboy-Americana threads.

The old denim and corduroy pants and jackets.

The lineup of western boots.

As if that wasn't enough the shop also dabbles in designer vintage with pieces from Pucci, Chanel and this Valentino dress.